x2 what Cold said, and I can't see any benefit from being in yet another govt database.

It has always been dependent on where I'm returning from on whether or not the shitbag-high school dropout-fascist-communist-shitbag-motherfucker-cocksucker-douchefuck-asshole-scumbag-shit for brains govt cunts give me a hard time.

LATAM = a grilling.Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa = no trouble, no questions.MENA = same as LATAM

Maybe I'll get a really dark tan and start dressing native because those fuckers always breeze right through.

Make baby Jesus happy. Punch a "law enforcement" official in their fat fucking tacticool face.

Fuckers.

I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track.

Will have to search for the link where someone discusses it, but if it's similar to the CLEAR program, then all it does is let you cut in front of other people at the security lines. If you're a USAian and feel like being a rude cunt to your fellow citizens (not to mention what Cold and Q said) then feel free to throw your money away. I've only been in superhuge lines coming into the US and leaving (as a US citizens of course) so may or may not be worth it depending on where you tend to go.

-V

p.s. I think it sounds like a great system for ppl looking to recruit domestic terrorists/spies. Find someone w/ a clean record but sympathetic views and a US passport, meet them in 'normal' places (London, Madrid, Istanbul, etc) and keep them unnoticed and unscrutinized as they come in and out of the country.

"If you were born near someplace called "The Erg of ____" you lost the lottery." - Kurt the Wise

"If you're stupid, the whole world is a dangerous place." - friendlyskies

I'm working in Yemen currently and on my first R&R back to the USA got escorted to "The Room" as soon as I came through Customs. After about an hour of sitting around while more and more problematic-looking types were brought in (and very few actually being processed out) and having an aneurysm watching the clock (I had a connecting flight to Detroit) - some guy in a suit finally whispered something to one of the CBP guys and I was called up, asked a few questions, given my passport and just barely made my flight!

That was BEFORE I had Global Entry...

Entering the USA this time thru Newark (the airport I hate the most) and using one of the GE kiosks, I typed in the info it asked, it then printed out a slip of paper, and I handed it to a CBP guy on the way out. No muss, no fuss. In that one moment it had paid for itself as far as I was concerned!

To get one the process is easy enough - do your application online, get conditional approval, and schedule the interview. I had my card in the mail 3 days later after I interviewed!

I got mine a year or so ago and it does speed things along at most incoming US airports. As to being on one more government database, do you really think you’re not on them already? They create your file on this one by looking at what they already have on you in all the others. Keep your nose clean and do your best to look harmless (I know, it’s hard for some of us here) and you should be all right - unless the information in all those other databases is already enough to cook your goose.

DO it! Dirt cheap for what you get. You have to check in with it as your ID to get priority access within the US, but between US and Canada, and I fly into the US from Trinidad often, plus out of Paris, Heathrow, Frankfurt, etc...I won't let mine expire!

It's true that THIS isn't the government watchlist entry that will land you in serious trouble... If you don't have anything bad to your name, it won't make things worse, and if you're already in a problematic situation, well... it won't make things worse either. Or just a little, but you're already screwed, so where's the issue?Plus, governments are so 20th century, now it's corporations that register every step you make... and apply punishment to whoever doesn't conform to their standards by keeping them jobless.

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